Chronic Low Back Pain

Chronic low back pain is obviously unpleasant and best avoided – get your acute low back pain treated properly. The statistics often quoted in the research indicate that 80% of us will suffer from back pain in our adult lives, but that for the vast majority of people the pain settles within 12-weeks. If not correctly treated the likelihood a recurrence in the following 12-months increases drastically. Low back pain is often incorrectly diagnosed in the beginning and hence a pattern of pain has developed which is now more difficult to break.

Self Management

Remain active, within the limits of your pain keep mobile.

If the pain is severe enough to limit your mobility come and see us and get it sorted.

Discuss with your GP the benefits or otherwise of pain relief, anti-inflammatories or muscle relaxant medications

If you have pins and needles or numbness in the legs, make a time for treatment, that needs to be correctly assessed.

Physiotherapy Management

Accurately assess, diagnose and treat your condition

Consider what treatments you have had in the past and what has and has not worked to aid in both diagnosis and treatment

Refer you to your GP, for referral to a Musculo-Skeletal Specialist, Neurosurgeon or Orthopaedic Surgeon as they deem appropriate.

Offer feedback to your GP on your rate of recovery and alternative courses of treatment such as cortisone or ozone injections, prolotherapy or PRP.

Establish a home programme of exercises incorporating core stability work, flexibility and conditioning.

Establish independence in the performance of the exercises with a view to return to maximal pre-injury function as soon as possible